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Joe Norman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Applied Complexity Science https://t.co/kcLM9zwHL7 https://t.co/2EoABU2gka

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Book Cover for: Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life, Robert Rosen

Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life

Robert Rosen
Joe NormanJoe Norman

"Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way." Robert Rosen, Life Itself

Paperback, 2005

$28.95Member price:$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Just So Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition, Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Rudyard Kipling
Joe NormanJoe Norman

2yr old: hands me a Rudyard Kipling book to read, Just So Stories Me, excited to read something with a little meat: Oh great a big girl book! Me, reading: why the hell is Rudyard Kipling naming all the towns around me ?! Turns out he lived for some years nearby, trippy moment

Paperback, Mass Market, 2010

$5.95Member price:$2.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Saul Alinsky
Joe NormanJoe Norman

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Rule 4: Make your opponent live up to their own rules [even if you flout them and don't believe in them] https://t.co/NsBGhBRSzL

Paperback, 1989

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications, David Deutsch

The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--And Its Implications

David Deutsch
Joe NormanJoe Norman

It took David Deutsch less than 24 hours to bring my joke to life This is the fabric of reality https://t.co/D5IVS2MLO7

Paperback, 1998

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Myth And Ritual In Christianity, Alan W. Watts

Myth And Ritual In Christianity

Alan W. Watts
Joe NormanJoe Norman

Alan Watts wrote a book on myth and ritual in Christianity. An academic essay from a non-Christian, no dog in the fight, some really enlightening perspectives By his own words, his analysis had to be limited to Catholicism and Orthodox, because outside of that the religion was… https://t.co/wydeIFfkHJ

Paperback, 2023

$22.95Member price:$20.66 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Just So Stories: (Annotated Edition), Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories: (Annotated Edition)

Rudyard Kipling
Joe NormanJoe Norman

2yr old: hands me a Rudyard Kipling book to read, Just So Stories Me, excited to read something with a little meat: Oh great a big girl book! Me, reading: why the hell is Rudyard Kipling naming all the towns around me ?! Turns out he lived for some years nearby, trippy moment

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Book Cover for: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing: Poems, Louis Gallo

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing: Poems

Louis Gallo
Joe NormanJoe Norman

Why is there something rather than nothing, is one of the first questions, and remains one of the most profound. Irreducible mystery

Paperback, 2021

$19.60Member price:$9.80 + Free shipping50% off your first book